Re: Is it acceptable to not parse unittest blocks when unittests are disabled ?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/31/2017 6:33 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
There are certainly advantages to having the compiler skip over code where
it can, but it's pretty weird for the language to require that something be
valid and then have the compiler ignore it. That makes it really easy to
have something compile on one compiler but not another. Granted, properly
unit testing and testing code on a variety of platforms (so that all of the
version blocks and static if branches are tested) should catch those issues
regardless, but it does seem a bit off to me for the language to require
something and for the compiler to not care - especially the reference
compiler.

I know. But it is worth it. It should enable D compilers to scale to handling 
very large imports.